Background

Mr. Michael Donovan founded Donovan Data Systems Inc., in 1967 and has been its Chairman since 1967 and served as its Chief Executive Officer since 1967. Mr. Donovan focuses on product development, working with product and system developers. He founded Mediaocean and serves as its Executive Chairman. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of MediaOcean, Inc. After a year at IBM in New York, he ventured out on his own in 1965 as an independent programming Consultant. He ... started DDS two years later. He designed and wrote the first DDS system, DiskTab, which was an application for market research tabulation. From there, Mr. Donovan branched DDS into licensing advertising software systems and in the early '70s evolved DDS into an industry data center, long before outsourcing became fashionable. He has been Executive Chairman of MediaOcean, Inc. since September 25, 2011. Mr. Donovan has been a Director of Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc., the Parent Company of Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. since November 2003. He is a Director of the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation and on the board of advisors of the Yale Divinity School. He graduated from the Cambridge University with a degree in Engineering. He continued his studies at MIT where he obtained a MS in Computers and Business.

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